Everything about your works
We can only pay out royalties for works that you have submitted to us in good time and registered in full. Please therefore keep an eye on the deadlines when submitting your work registrations. The basis of protection for your works is, however, copyright law. For the protection alone it is not necessary that you become a GEMA member or submit a work declaration.
Register your works in time
We issue licences on your behalf. What this means: Against payment of a fee, we grant music users a licence allowing them to perform or play back works in public or to reproduce them. A prerequisite for this is that we have access to your complete repertoire in good time. Please register your works via the Online Portal, this is simple and comfortable, just like the explainer video shows. In the case that you might have larger volumes of data for registration, we also provide technical notification procedures.
Find out here how you can become a GEMA member.
Upload soundfiles
Is your composition used in advertising, on TV, on the radio, in clubs and discotheques or as online content? In that case, upload the soundfile for your work now for audio fingerprint monitoring purposes.
Search works and involved parties with our repertoire search
You want to search for works, involved creators, publishers and their contact details, or find out, whether and how your own works have been documented? In our repertoire search, you can access our works database. If you are GEMA member, your own works will be shown including the shares in question and you can also export the data.
Are you a publisher and wish to register works?
Electronic Confirmation Process
Register sub-publishing agreements
Register sub-published works
Are you a publisher and wish to register works?
Publishers are often facing situations where they have to register many works at once. Depending on the scope of the works to be registered, we provide different formats. Please choose the option suitable for your needs. When registering sub-published works, please take the information below into account.
Register more than 1,000 works
If you register more than 1,000 works per year, we recommend that you use the international CWR format for original and sub-publishers.
Register up to 1,000 works
For smaller registration volumes of up to 1,000 works, please use the work declaration feature in our Online Portal.
You can notify us of your national and international sub-publishing agreements here.
Don’t forget: Please register your sub-publishing agreements before you register your works.
Get digital work confirmations
Once you have successfully registered your work, we send you a work confirmation including a database excerpt. Do you no longer want to get the work confirmations and agreement declarations by post and digitally instead? In that case, please e-mail us at mitgliederservice@gema.de. We send out confirmations by e-mail or alternatively provide them via SFTP/FTPS downloads. If you do not have a SFTP/FTPS access yet, you can request a new access with this form.
FAQs - frequently asked questions about works
You can also view the current documentation of your works in our Online Portal.
Electronic work declarations are promptly ingested into our documentation system and work versions with a work version number are generated. Either registration status 1 (complete documentation) or registration status 2 (manual processing required) is allocated to these ingested work versions. Due to the high volume of more than 1.6m submitted work notifications per year, work versions with registration status 2 are merely processed only after they have been used. This means that only after a licensed usage has occurred, work versions with registration status 2 will be manually processed and switched to registration status 1.